I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 363: The Injured Soldier 2

Bai Jingzhou had a rough plan in mind to help the disabled soldiers, but he did not put it into practice immediately.

He observed the grandfather and grandson for a while, and then found Jiang Bei, who was working very hard, and asked, "How many people like you who retired due to injuries are there in Xingzhou?"

Jiang Bei answered subconsciously, "There are twelve of us in this group, including me."

Bai Jingzhou asked again, "Do you know the character, personality, ability, and degree of disability of the remaining eleven people?"

Jiang Bei nodded, "We have been together since we were drafted. This time we were discharged due to injuries, and we were sent back home by the army at the same time."

Bai Jingzhou, "Tell me more about it."

Although Jiang Bei didn't understand, he still carefully told Bai Jingzhou about the other eleven people's conduct, personality, ability, disability, etc.

After hearing this, Bai Jingzhou said to Jiang Bei: "If you are willing to guarantee them, I can recruit them into the workshop as well."

Jiang Bei was stunned, "You, you..."

Bai Jingzhou glanced at him and said, "If they want to come, they can come. If they don't want to come, you don't have to persuade them. You can see that I don't lack people to work. I asked you to make this trip just to help good men like you who have shed blood and fought for their country."

Jiang Bei's eyes suddenly turned red after hearing what Bai Jingzhou said.

He tried hard to suppress the complicated emotions in his heart and bowed to Bai Jingzhou repeatedly, "Thank you, Boss! Thank you, Boss!"

Bai Jingzhou patted him on the shoulder and said, "Remember one thing, that is, I will only assign tasks that are within their capabilities to your comrades. I don't keep idle people here, nor do I keep those who are overconfident and like to stir up trouble. No matter who it is, as long as he works for me, he must obey management and abide by the law."

Jiang Bei nodded his head vigorously, "I'll remember that, Boss, don't worry, I will never bring those who will cause you trouble to Baijia Village."

Bai Jingzhou nodded. "There are people specifically responsible for the transportation and all the travel expenses. All you have to do is go to their homes in the name of visiting friends and see if any of them are facing difficulties like you and are willing to come here to work."

Jiang Bei nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, I will definitely get this done."

After seeing Bai Jingzhou off and saying goodbye to his grandfather, Jiang Bei packed up his things and set off with the coachman and guards assigned to him by Bai Jingzhou.

He was away for more than twenty days, until the end of the autumn harvest and two days before the two workshops officially started work, when Jiang Bei returned to Baijia Village with three of his former comrades.

Of his three comrades, two came alone, and one brought his wife and a son and a daughter.

Jiang Bei told Bai Jingzhou that the other eight people had their families to support them and could still make ends meet, so they were not willing to leave their hometowns and move to a strange place. Only these three people could not make ends meet in their hometown, so as soon as he said that, they gritted their teeth and followed him.

Bai Jingzhou nodded, indicating that he understood the choices of the eight people, and then asked him about the situations of the three people respectively.

Jiang Bei then pointed at the three people and introduced them to Bai Jingzhou, "This is Feng Yiping, he is eighteen years old this year. His parents died early, and the house and land in his family were occupied by his uncle's family when he was very young..."

According to Jiang Bei, before joining the army, Feng Yiping had been working as a farmhand in his uncle's house. He did the most work, ate the least, and was beaten and scolded by his aunt every day.

He joined the army before because his uncle's family gave money to the village head and secretly replaced his cousin's name with his own.

When he came back injured this time, his uncle's family originally wanted to rob him of the money and then kick him out, but he was more cautious and did not take the money with him.

There was no profit to be made, and because he had a lame leg and could no longer do heavy work, his uncle's family simply refused to let him in.

When Jiang Bei went there, he was wandering around the county looking for a job. When Feng Yiping heard Jiang Bei say that Bai Jingzhou was willing to give them a job, who couldn't find a job in the county, he followed him to Baijia Village without saying a word.

Peng Yang, who also came here alone, is 20 years old this year. While he was conscripted to serve in the military, his pregnant wife was killed by his sister-in-law.

After he came back, he learned about his wife's death from the villagers. He rushed back home to question them, but his family members ganged up on his sister-in-law, saying that his sister-in-law had never pushed his wife, and that his wife's family was making up stories to extort money.

His brother also asked him to take out the silver and money in his hand, saying that his family was extorted of twenty taels of silver by his in-laws, and he had to make up for it.

Peng Yang could no longer bear it and said that since his sister-in-law was wrongly accused, he would go to the county government to report the case and ask the officials to find out the truth of the matter, clear his sister-in-law's name, and then put his father-in-law and his family in jail.

When his family heard this, they were immediately panicked. They hired a middleman to mediate and finally settled the matter privately with Peng Yang's Yue family for twenty taels of silver. If Peng Yang took the matter to the government, wouldn't their money be wasted?

As a last resort, they had to admit that it was Peng Yang's sister-in-law who "accidentally lost her balance" and knocked down his wife.

Peng Yang was extremely angry. When he was at home, his two sisters-in-law would often gang up on him to bully his wife. Every time he spoke up for his wife, his parents would turn a blind eye and allow his two sisters-in-law to bully his wife.

Because of this, he was always worried about his wife, but he thought that at most they would just make her feel humiliated. However, he did not expect that about half a year after he left, his sister-in-law actually killed his wife.

Some people just couldn't bear to see the Peng family's disregard for human life, and some people simply wanted to watch the fun. As soon as Peng Yang returned to the village, someone told him that his sister-in-law not only pushed his wife down, but also pretended to fall and landed on top of her.

His wife was pregnant and couldn't afford to fall, not to mention that the other party hit her hard.

His wife had spotting and was in terrible pain in her stomach, but his sister-in-law just watched coldly and refused to even hire a doctor or a midwife to help her.

It was obvious that the other party wanted to kill her and leave her without any evidence.

Peng Yang's wife didn't want to die, so she endured the pain and wanted to go out to ask the neighbors for help, but she was pushed down by his sister-in-law again.

She screamed in pain. The old lady from the neighboring house heard the noise and came out of the house. She saw her lying in a pool of blood through the fence. She tried hard to crawl to the gate of the yard, but her sister-in-law blocked her with a ferocious look on her face, pushing and kicking her from time to time.

The old lady next door was terrified, and quickly asked her little grandson, who was also terrified, to help call a doctor.